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Resources for Introducing Topics in Science:

• This YouTube channel has lots of videos on a variety of topics: crashcourse

Collections of Learning & Teacher Resources:

Great search engine just for education- facts, data, videos, quizzes!: Gooru

Great Collections of Resources:

• Science Friday: Weekly NPR broadcast - except the website contains tons of quality audio & video on all topics

• MIT has videos explaining science & math concepts - yes -MIT!!: http://k12videos.mit.edu/

• Good Articles on Science & Environment: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22039872

• YouTube channels for Science:

  
  

  http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/10/7-great-youtube-channels-for-science.html

Matter & Energy:

Force, Motion & Energy:

• Students can learn phyics, chemistry, energy laws, etc. by doing simple experiments with household items (how-to-videos):

• Students learn physics via gaming: msichicago.org

Earth & Space:

• Take part in several ongoing projects- finding planets, understanding whale calls, etc.!: zooniverse

Water Cycle:

• The Water Cycle:http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.html
• Water Treatment interactive: http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/watertreatmentplant/flash/index.html
• Everything about the Great Lakes:http://waterlife.nfb.ca/
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Organisms & Environment:

• Students help to solve environmental (real-world) problems as a class or individually: RandomKid

• Find the animals & plants in any region in the U.S.- Interactive Map : http://www.usanpn.org/files/viz/index.html#

• Great project on plant and animal cells - gets students thinking: http://www.nctt.net/lessonsarticles.htm

• Take part in several ongoing projects- finding planets, understanding whale calls, etc.!: zooniverse

• Great project on energy & alternative energy resources - gets students thinking : http://www.nctt.net/lessons/altenergy/AltEnergy.pdf

• Energy Resources sites collected by Mr. T.:

  
  

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Technology

• Lessons -Students use BASIC to create 3 simple computer programs, create a arm online, & use the Turing method to analyze artifical intelligence: Discovery Edu

Science: Collections of sites & tools

• Over 3,000 science and math activities - has phone app for teachers too:

• Many great sites by the U.S. gov.: FREE

• Cool Tools for Schools -Science

• Tons of great sites for engaging students: scroll down to the categories of:

• Crime & Justice; Securty; Defense, Environment, Science: http://bensguide.gpo.gov/subject.html

• Great collection: FreeTech4Teachers

• California Science Center: www.californiasciencecenter.org

• How Stuff Works: Check out the staff's favs! -coool!: howstuffworks.com

Cool Books on Science:

• Extensive collection in aim to interest teens in science: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Cool Articles:

• Boy attends school by a robot:

  
  

  http://bigstory.ap.org/article/my-classmate-robot-ny-pupil-attends-remotely

Educational Gaming:

• Resources - great list of lessons, tutorials, & videos, etc.: amd.com

• Gamestar Mechanic: website & community to help kids make games: What is it?

• Free version on Gamestar Mechanic available to educators: http://gamestarmechanic.com/teachers.

• Gamestar Mechanic Ideas and How-to

Science Blogs to follow:

• Science & technology education: marjee.org